AQA A LEVEL (7707/1) ENGLISH LANGUAGE& LITERATURE
PAPER 1 TELLING STORIES QUESTION PAPER+ MARK SCHEME
MAY 2024
A-level
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Paper 1 Telling Stories
Friday 24 May 2024 Morning Time allowed: 3 hours
Materials
For this paper you must have:
an AQA 12-page answer book
the Insert (enclosed)
a copy of the set texts you have studied for Section B and Section C. These texts must not be
annotated and must not contain additional notes or materials.
Instructions
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 7707/1.
There are three sections:
Section A: Remembered Places
Section B: Imagined Worlds
Section C: Poetic Voices
Answer three questions in total: the question in Section A, one question from Section B and one
question from Section C.
Do all rough work in your answer book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked.
Information
The maximum mark for this paper is 100.
The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
There are 40 marks for the question in Section A, 35 marks for the question in Section B and 25
marks for the question in Section C.
You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
It is recommended that you spend 70 minutes on Section A, 60 minutes on Section B and 50 minutes
on Section C.
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Section A
Remembered Places
Answer Question 1 in this section.
Read Text A and Text B printed below and on the Insert.
Text A is an extract from Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson.
Text B is an extract from ‘Inside Out and Upside Down’, (extract from NOT-FOR-PARENTS: PARIS
– Everything you ever wanted to know) by Klay Lamprell.
0 1 Compare and contrast how the writers of Text A and Text B express their ideas about
the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
You should refer to both texts in your answer.
[40 marks]
Text A
Bill Bryson is an American author who has written a number of travel memoirs, as well as
popular books on science and languages. Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe tells
the story of his journey through Europe in 1990.
With the Louvre packed I went instead to the new – new to me, at any rate – Musée
d’Orsay, on the Left Bank opposite the Tuileries. When I had last passed it, sixteen years
before, it had been a derelict hulk, the shell of the old Gare d’Orsay, but some person of
vision had decided to restore the old station as a museum and it is simply wonderful, both
5 as a building and as a collection of pictures. I spent two happy hours there, and
afterwards checked out the situation at the Louvre – still hopelessly crowded – and
instead went to the Pompidou Centre, which I was determined to try to like, but I
couldn’t. Everything about it seemed wrong. For one thing it was a bit weathered and
faded, like a child’s toy that has been left out over winter, which surprised me because it
10 is only a dozen years old and the government had just spent £40 million refurbishing it,
but I guess that’s what you get when you build with plastic. And it seemed much too
overbearing a structure for its cramped neighbourhood. It would be an altogether
different building in a park.
But what I really dislike about buildings like the Pompidou Centre, and Paris is choking
15 on them, is that they are just showing off. Here’s Richard Rogers saying to the world,
‘Look, I put all the pipes on the outside. Am I cute enough to kiss?’ I could excuse that if
some consideration were given to function. No one seems to have thought what the
Pompidou Centre should do – that it should be a gathering place, a haven, because
inside it’s just crowded and confusing. It has none of the sense of space and light and
20 majestic calm of the Musée d’Orsay. It’s like a department store on the first day of a big
sale. There’s hardly any place to sit and no focal point – no big clock or anything – at
which to meet someone. It has no heart.
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Text B is printed on the Insert
Turn over for Section B
Turn over ►
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PAPER 1 TELLING STORIES QUESTION PAPER+ MARK SCHEME
MAY 2024
A-level
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Paper 1 Telling Stories
Friday 24 May 2024 Morning Time allowed: 3 hours
Materials
For this paper you must have:
an AQA 12-page answer book
the Insert (enclosed)
a copy of the set texts you have studied for Section B and Section C. These texts must not be
annotated and must not contain additional notes or materials.
Instructions
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 7707/1.
There are three sections:
Section A: Remembered Places
Section B: Imagined Worlds
Section C: Poetic Voices
Answer three questions in total: the question in Section A, one question from Section B and one
question from Section C.
Do all rough work in your answer book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked.
Information
The maximum mark for this paper is 100.
The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
There are 40 marks for the question in Section A, 35 marks for the question in Section B and 25
marks for the question in Section C.
You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
It is recommended that you spend 70 minutes on Section A, 60 minutes on Section B and 50 minutes
on Section C.
,IB/G/Jun24/G4004/E6 7707/1
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Section A
Remembered Places
Answer Question 1 in this section.
Read Text A and Text B printed below and on the Insert.
Text A is an extract from Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson.
Text B is an extract from ‘Inside Out and Upside Down’, (extract from NOT-FOR-PARENTS: PARIS
– Everything you ever wanted to know) by Klay Lamprell.
0 1 Compare and contrast how the writers of Text A and Text B express their ideas about
the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
You should refer to both texts in your answer.
[40 marks]
Text A
Bill Bryson is an American author who has written a number of travel memoirs, as well as
popular books on science and languages. Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe tells
the story of his journey through Europe in 1990.
With the Louvre packed I went instead to the new – new to me, at any rate – Musée
d’Orsay, on the Left Bank opposite the Tuileries. When I had last passed it, sixteen years
before, it had been a derelict hulk, the shell of the old Gare d’Orsay, but some person of
vision had decided to restore the old station as a museum and it is simply wonderful, both
5 as a building and as a collection of pictures. I spent two happy hours there, and
afterwards checked out the situation at the Louvre – still hopelessly crowded – and
instead went to the Pompidou Centre, which I was determined to try to like, but I
couldn’t. Everything about it seemed wrong. For one thing it was a bit weathered and
faded, like a child’s toy that has been left out over winter, which surprised me because it
10 is only a dozen years old and the government had just spent £40 million refurbishing it,
but I guess that’s what you get when you build with plastic. And it seemed much too
overbearing a structure for its cramped neighbourhood. It would be an altogether
different building in a park.
But what I really dislike about buildings like the Pompidou Centre, and Paris is choking
15 on them, is that they are just showing off. Here’s Richard Rogers saying to the world,
‘Look, I put all the pipes on the outside. Am I cute enough to kiss?’ I could excuse that if
some consideration were given to function. No one seems to have thought what the
Pompidou Centre should do – that it should be a gathering place, a haven, because
inside it’s just crowded and confusing. It has none of the sense of space and light and
20 majestic calm of the Musée d’Orsay. It’s like a department store on the first day of a big
sale. There’s hardly any place to sit and no focal point – no big clock or anything – at
which to meet someone. It has no heart.
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Text B is printed on the Insert
Turn over for Section B
Turn over ►
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